Pope Leo’s Magnifica Humanitas: enshrines strict AI ethics, global regulation, and calls out data ownership, apologizing for past delays.
Pope Leo has issued Magnifica Humanitas, declaring that it is not permissible to entrust irreversible, lethal AI decisions to machines. The encyclical calls for external regulation and cautions against the concentration of power and data in private hands as AI technology expands into warfare and everyday life. Vatican launch included Anthropic’s co-founder amid ongoing legal battles with the Trump administration.